From Downtown Toronto Ontario Canada and the shores of Georgian Bay & Blue Mountain, my Collingwood Shangri-La escape, I write about people and the goings on here and music, literature and life in general. Equally left brained (IT Project Manager) and right brained (creative writing and learning to play the Ukulele). Love live music and red wine and long conversations. Pull up a chair and join me from time to time and we shall share both thoughts and company! Blog comments welcome!

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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Benches and Buildings and Sex in the Bathroom

BenchMark Blogs: the Art Benches of Liberty Village

If you have missed the previous posts explaining the Liberty Village Benchmark program and the art benches we have located in our village go here to fetch them all and read the earlier posts. . This is the 11th post in the series to feature each of our 19 art benches in Liberty Village.

The bench I am featuring today is located just steps from the bench which I blogged about last week, near King Street, just east of Atlantic Avenue at the top of the stairs adjacent to the rail way underpass and was created by the same artist - Christopher Hayes. It is located in the walkway between the West Elm Furniture Store and the First Capital Realty Building. Notice their logo on the building photo below - oddly it is quite similar to the Facebook logo LOL. This building also houses the restaurant Mildred's Kitchen, the liquor store and a Goodlife Fitness Gym. It is bench number 11 on the Benchmark Map which can be accessed here. Titled "Stream" is another sponsored by First Capital Realty.

This bench has a similar top part to the bench #6 -Transfermation, blogged about last week. So it too makes mention of the Red Rocket and Route 504 and the scenes of the local buildings and people. The seat of the bench extends this theme and is, in my mind a bit of a puzzle. I can see a yellow ski-doo parked in the parking lot on one side and a blue bus like vehicle on the other side of what looks to be an architectural diagram of a building ... not sure what this has to do with the title "Stream" - unless we are talking of streams of traffic - people inside the building and the vehicular traffic outside - which is seemingly all parked and not in motion.

I have been in Mildred's bathrooms. They are pretty nicely decorated, modern, a good size - and co-ed - and well out of the way of the dining area. Yup, it is do-able, that is for sure. A new variation on "Get a Room!" LOL

It was only thirty years ago that more than 300 gay men were arrested for having consensual sex in the now infamous Bath House Raids. At that time, the city was shocked and outraged, but this gets barely a mention. Oh my, just look how far we’ve come?

I'm thinking that this gives Toronto’s new brand identity “Toronto Unlimited” a whole new meaning.

If you are thinking of going to Mildred's Temple Kitchen - for sex or just for a meal, it is a great place for that special dinner and I bet Valentine's weekend will be pretty booked. My son Jeff and his friend Amanda took me there last summer for my birthday and I had the most elegant and scrumptious meal you could imagine. Go here to read about it and see pictures of the wonderful presentation on plate.

Let there be no mistake, I am not against anyone having sex in the bathroom of a restaurant; however there is certain etiquette which must be followed. I don't want to hear moans of passion while I am I am eating my dinner and I don't want to find a mess in the bathroom when I go there. Also, you have to be prepared for a smirk or two if I see you exit the bathroom flushed and "with a glow on". Apparently, they are going to hire a maid to keep the room tidy during the night of passion and as to the noise, as I recall the music was loud enough that so unless there are some real screamers, love noise should not be an issue. Moreover, no chance of me being there anyway, I will be at home alone with a good movie on Valentine's night - hmm, I am tempted to book a reservation and see who else shows up looking for sex. LOL

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I have a great curiosity and interest in the many things around me. I love to travel, even if it is for a walk around the block. I have loved and lost, loved and thrown away and loved again. Currently trying to figure out whether there is a "Mr Right" in my future. My 5 adult children are reasonably self sufficient now and I have the time to indulge myself by exploring the things which interest me. I am now trying to figure out if I am really in retirement and if so how to reconstruct my life or if I am just taking a break from my career for a while.